Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5514

Title: University Of Washington Imap Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5514.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 23, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.81%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5514: Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

cyrus 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/33275 http://secunia.com/advisories/33638 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3490 http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47526 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33275 http://secunia.com/advisories/33638 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021485 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32958 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3490 http://www.washington.edu/imap/documentation/RELNOTES.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477227 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47526 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-January/msg00846.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5514 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 23, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.